{{Short description|Mobile and modular home manufacturing company}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2008}} {{Infobox company | name = Champion Homes, Inc. | logo = Champion-Homes.png | type = Public | traded_as = {{ubl|{{NASDAQ|SKY}}|S&P 600 component}} | industry = Manufactured and modular home building| | founded = {{Start date and age|1953}} in Dryden, Michigan | location = Troy, Michigan | key_people = Tim Larson, President & CEO | founders = {{ubl|Walter W. Clark|Henry E. George}} | num_employees =8,000+ | website = {{url|https://www.championhomes.com|championhomes.com}} }}
'''Champion Homes, Inc.''', is a mobile and modular home manufacturing company.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=Aug 6, 2024|title=Champion Homes Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2025 Results |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240806234292/en/Champion-Homes-Announces-First-Quarter-Fiscal-2025-Results|access-date=Jan 3, 2025 |website=www.businesswire.com|language=en}}</ref> It is one of the largest modular homebuilders in North America.<ref name="about"/> The company also provides factory-built housing to the United States and western Canada.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181115005622/en/Skyline-Champion-Corporation-Announces-Appointment-Michael-Berman|title=Skyline Champion Corporation Announces the Appointment of Michael Berman to the Board of Directors|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en}}</ref>
==Products==
Champion Homes is primarily a manufacturer of mobile and modular homes, but they have also built travel trailers, RVs, campers, and commercial buses. Furthermore, Champion Homes has built modular homes for government applications. Champion Homes has acquired many brand names, including Caledonian Building Systems, Carolina Building Solutions, Commander, Dutch, Fortune, Highland Manufacturing, Homes of Merit, Moduline, New Era, New Image, North American, Redman, Silvercrest, SRI, Summit Crest and Titan.
As of 2025 Champion Homes had sold over 3,000,000 of factory-built homes, modular and park model homes.<ref name="about"/>
==History==
Champion Homes was founded in 1953 as a single manufacturing facility in the small town of Dryden in rural Michigan by Walter W. Clark and Henry E. George.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://print.corpmagazine.com/publication/?i=177442&article_id=1522602&view=articleBrowser&ver=html5#%7B%22issue_id%22:177442,%22view%22:%22articleBrowser%22,%22article_id%22:%221522602%22%7D|title=HOUSING|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en-US}}</ref>
* In 2005, Champion was the first manufacturer to build privatized modular housing for the military.<ref name=":0" /> * In 2010, Champion filed for bankruptcy and was acquired by an investor group led by Centerbridge Partners, MAK Capital Fund LP and Sankaty Advisors and company lenders led by Credit Suisse.<ref>[https://www.law360.com/articles/144410/champion-reaches-130m-asset-sale-deal Champion Reaches $130M Asset Sale Deal]</ref> The company later recovered.<ref>[https://www.corpmagazine.com/features/stronger-champion-home-builders-back-on-track/ Stronger Champion Home Builders Back on Track]</ref>
==Today==
Champion Homes is still headquartered in Michigan, but in Troy, Michigan rather than Dryden, and has over 40 manufacturing facilities located across the United States and Canada. Worldwide, Champion Homes employs over 8,000 people.<ref name="about">{{Cite web|title= About Champion |url=https://www.championhomes.com/about/champion-homes |access-date=Jan 3, 2025}}</ref>
In June 2018 Champion Enterprises Holdings LLC combined with Skyline Corporation to form the Skyline Champion Corporation.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.championhomes.com/news/skyline-champion-homes-business-combination-creates-skyline-champion-corporation|title=Skyline and Champion Home Builders Announce Closing of Business Combination to Create Skyline Champion Corporation|website=www.championhomes.com|access-date=2018-11-20}}</ref>
From August 2024, Skyline Champion Corporation changed their corporate name to Champion Homes, Inc.<ref name=":2"/>
==See also== * Mobile Home * Cavco Industries * Clayton Homes * Toll Brothers * D. R. Horton
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==External links== *[https://www.championhomes.com/ Official website] *[https://www.championhomes.com/about-champion-homes Company overview at official website]
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